partitioning advice for multi-boot?

[Dave Stevens]

Hello all,

I have a FC3 installation that I am tired of. I have two ide ATA drives, 40 
and 60 gigs each. I propose to remove the 40 gig and replace it with a 250 or 
300 gig SATA that I will use as my main operating drive and will use the 60 
gig for data storage. I have been reading about virtualization software and 
would like to be able to test this, just for my own satisfaction. I am 
thinking about having three partitions for testing distros - not very big 
ones, on the order of 10 gigs each. I assume I can have a common swap 
partition for all running s/w. I'd anticipate having 2 or 3 gigs of PC2700 
RAM. I expect to use FC5 freshly installed for most purposes.

I might want to have some MS OS in one or another of the partitions for 
business purposes.

Does anyone care to offer a suggestion about how to partition the big drive to 
facilitate these purposes? Is GRUB likely to be suitable? 

Dave


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